
ALL FILM REVIEWS
‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ REVIEW: Towering Rebirth
‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ is a gleeful return to the anarchic ultraviolence that is the franchise’s raison d'etre, giving you what you’d expect in subtly different, yet all the more tense and outrageous manner.
‘The Legend of Ochi’ REVIEW: Lights Amidst the Fog
‘The Legend of Ochi’ is a lovingly crafted riff on classic fantasy adventure films, one whose intimate foggy mountain atmosphere gives weight to rather broad-brush storytelling.
‘A Working Man’ REVIEW: Statham and Ayer’s Round Two
'A Working Man' is exactly what the marketing advertised — Jason Statham annihilating those in his way for a personal vendetta. But aside from the gleefully brutal intermittent bursts of carnage, there isn’t much substance beneath the surface.
‘In The Lost Lands’ REVIEW: Dangerous Desires in Dystopia
Beneath the slight eccentric clunkiness of ‘In The Lost Lands’ lies a very stylish and charmingly dorky slice of fantasy that believes in its own scrappy, wondrous illusions, and is all the better for it.
‘Companion’ REVIEW: Malformed connections
Companion’s sturdy structuring, biting humor, and tight pace of escalating tension allows it to bolster its thematic sentiments through an intriguing premise. It’s acidic fun with a twisted, beating heart.
‘Den of Thieves 2: Pantera’ REVIEW: Go big or go home
After over half a decade since its predecessor, ’Den of Thieves 2: Pantera’ serves a second round of patient, unraveling thrills that puts in a bit more thought in its modest ambition as straightforward genre pastiche.
‘Topakk’ REVIEW: The cost and boundaries of war
Arjo Atayde’s haunted, steely stoicism is an adequate anchor to hold ‘Topakk’ on. There are plenty of fist-pumping viscera to be found, but the film’s lack of grasp on its chaos hurts it more often than not.
‘Heretic’ REVIEW: Preying on Uncertainty
A tense, cerebral, yet crowd-pleasing chamber piece, ‘Heretic’ stacks tantalizing theological disquisitions and moments of primal terror on top of each other to create one entertaining thrill ride.